Beer Store's Ted Moroz says new policy to benefit brewers, drinkers
Ontario brewers are skeptical of a Beer Store offer of ownership stakes in the consortium that controls 80 per cent of beer sales in the province.
Jeff Fisher, owner of Indie Ale House in Toronto, said he wouldn't be a real owner under the Beer Store's offer, which he called a public relations exercise.
Under the offer, Ontario brewers that sell more than five-million litres a year would pay one-thousand dollars for an ownership stake, shares and board seats.
On CBC's Up North radio program for northern Ontario on Wednesday, Sudbury-born Beer Store president Ted Moroz told host Jason Turnbull how beer makers and drinkers will benefit from his company's new policy:
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And on the same program the following day, Taras Manzie from Lake of the Woods Brewery in Kenora spoke about the prospect of the Beer Store allowing craft brewers to become part owners — a move he said came as a complete surprise.
